The “Internet Rights” is an initiative through which DEF is consistently making an effort to make Internet as a medium to reach the masses, to create even opportunities and linkages between haves and have-nots so that the grassroots knowledge reaches the economic prosperity and vice versa through information communication technology and digital media. With its…
A new report commissioned by the APC written by Osama Manzar and Divya Menon of the Delhi-based Digital Empowerment Foundation takes a critical look at what is being done in the country to manage e-waste. APCNews talked to co-author Divya Menon. electronics is the fastest growing sector in India and are purchased by about 52…
Will a US$35 ‘tablet for the poor’ bring computing power to the masses? Not likely The Minister for Communication & Information Technology, Kapil Sibal, announced with much pomp on 5th October, the breakthrough pricing of a tablet computer at US$35 for “millions of India’s schoolchildren” to become digitally connected and benefit from online education. Kapil…
Social entrepreneurship has become a buzzword today. But two broad trends may be changing the way we understand the concept. One is its Western orientation, and the other is corporatization. If you search “social entrepreneurship” on Google, most of the definitions and examples you will get will be from the Western world. Wikipedia quotes Bill…
In India entrepreneurship is a necessity for survival, but for higher scale growth and innovations to instigate entrepreneurship, it is time that we have Plug and Play kind of centres in each metro to start with, and we have enough big corporations to provide such facilities They call themselves “Silicon Valley in a Box”. They…
I am in a situation where I cannot but compare India and the US to bring perspective on how the information economy driven by information communication technology and digital tools will be led by India to make the world a better place. And the onus will be on India and Indians across the globe, and…
Reston, Virginia, September 23, 2011 / PRNewswire-FirstCall / -. ORG domain name administrator Public Interest Registry (referred to as “PIR”) program earlier this summer launched in January 2012, new top-level domain. NGO will apply for the management of the domain. Mobilization as part of its ongoing global network of non-governmental organizations and entities part of the plan, PIR has been with the Digital Empowerment Foundation (referred to as “DEF”) co-operation in various parts of India held a series of eNGO seminars, through training programs to help local non- governmental organizations to develop and manage online business. This is a national eNGO program designed to help grassroots organizations in India through information, communication and technology (ICT) in economic and commercial aspects to develop.
